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Peace Talks Resume- Will It Happen In Our Lifetime

September 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Middle East 2010 By: Eve Schwartz Los Angeles CA, (Hollywood Today) 09/02/10 – The first round of  latest in the battle that has lasted for the last 3,000 years of conflict.  The  Israeli- Palestinian peace talks resume after eighteen months of a halt. On the Eve of  the of the talks with Hamas killing four Israeli settlers including a pregnant [...]

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Sean Penn, Spike Lee Speak on Wyclef Controversy

August 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

By Sean Penn HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 8/25/10 — As Wyclef Jean announces his regrettable turn-about to contest Haiti’s electoral rule of law (a law he has no previous record of dissension toward), his PR team is mobilizing. See Ms. Marian Salzman’s recent blog on the Huffington Post (August 23, 2010). In it, Ms. Salzman, hired [...]

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Commentary: Gibbs Should be Pulled as White House Press Secretary

August 15th, 2010 · No Comments

By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON DC (Hollywood Today) 8/15/10 — Robert Gibbs should be yanked as White House press secretary.  Not because of his outburst against the “professional left.” He was right about that. In an interview with The Hill last week, Gibbs once more proved Michael Kinsley’s maxim that a gaffe is just truth slipping [...]

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New Trend in Film Finance

July 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Hemisphere Film Partners By: Valerie Milano With the cost of movie making sky high, there have been several productions that have been halted in the recent past due to financial pressures. The newest James Bond film and notably, MGM has halted filming the next Lord of the Rings installment, “The Hobbit”. With the economic crisis [...]

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Tags: Business · Media/journalism

2010 NAMIC Vision Awards

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

The National Association for Multi-Ethnic Diversity in Communications, (NAMIC), presented the 16th annual Vision Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, April 22.

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Tags: Media/journalism · Television

Alcoholic Women Break Stigma

April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Recovery Rate Higher at Women Only Rehabs Claims Treatment Center By Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn Hollywood, Calif. (Hollywood Today) April 19, 2010 –Mothers with alcohol and substance abuse issues have had a long tragic history, and the problem seems only to be more present than ever. Celebrity moms like Heather Locklear, Tatum O’Neal and Brooke Mueller Sheen, [...]

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TV Regulators: Whose Side Are they On?

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Who is watching the watchers? By Valerie Milano HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 12/12/09 — In an ideal universe, government telecommunications regulators would make decisions based on what would best serve the public they are mandated to protect from unfair business practices, while promoting competition and social inclusiveness. However, in the real world, it often appears [...]

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Editorial: Amanda Knox Conviction Shocking Miscarriage of Justice

December 5th, 2009 · 28 Comments

  American student convicted on scant evidence and tabloid imagery By Matthew B. Zeidman PERUGIA, Italy (Hollywood Today) 12/5/09 – The two-year investigation and trial of Washingtonian exchange student Amanda Knox and former beau Raffaele Sollecito came to an end Friday, when the pair were found guilty of murdering Knox’s roommate, respectively sentenced to 26 [...]

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Tags: Law & Disorder · Media/journalism

Take a Bow, Oprah – Only You Could Cancel Your Show

November 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

ABC-TV is not keen on losing its cash machine “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” nor is CBS Distribution which syndicates it.

It would be like “The Godfather,” where all competitors to the Family were dealt with in a day, and the Winfrey Family took over the syndicates.

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Editorial: Miley Cyrus a Hero for Leaving Twitter

October 12th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Disney singer rails against an insidious transparency By Matthew B. Zeidman HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 10/12/09 – Yeah, the rumors are true. Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter. And while the holiday-weekend blogosphere has been abuzz with questions, like why the young Disneyette would bother posting a YouTube justification if she’s truly done “living for people,” [...]

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Dan Rather Suit Vs CBS Dismissed by Court

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Appeals court denies Rather the $70M he hoped for after being fired By Adam Shapiro NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 09/29/09 – A New York state appeals court dismissed Dan Rather’s $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against his former employers at CBS Corp. Tuesday afternoon. The court determined that there was no breach of contract [...]

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RIP Kennedy & Dunne, Not So Much for Jackson

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Three icons, Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne and Michael Jackson rule the headlines in afterlife By Jeffrey Jolson HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 8/27/09 — The star-crossed family that knew death as much as they loved life, lost its second leader in as any weeks. Sen. Ted Kennedy succumbed to cancer Tuesday night and matriarch Eunice Kennedy [...]

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